CBSE

Test Paper-02
Chapter 06 Life Processes

1. Bile is secreted by (1)

a. Pancreas
b. Duodenum
c. Liver
d. Gall bladder

2. Covering with black paper strips should be tested for presence of (1)

a. O2 in leaf

b. Starch in leaf
c. Water in leaf
d. CO2 in leaf

3. Twenty dry raisins were soaked in 50 mL of water and kept for one hour at 50°C.
Which out of the following was the correct observation? (1)

a. 10 raisins absorbed water, 10 did not

b. 15 raisins absorbed water, 5 did not
c. 8 raisins absorbed water, 12 did not
d. all the 20 raisins absorbed water

4. Which gland in the human body which secretes digestive enzymes as well as a
hormone? (1)

a. Ovary
b. pancreas
c. thyroid
d. Testis

5. Four students, A, B, C and D, make the records given below, for the parts marked 'X'
and 'Y' in this diagram.
 Student X Y

A Stoma Guard cell

B Guard cell Stoma

C Epidermal cell Stoma

D Stoma Epidermal cell

The correct record, out of these, is that of student : (1)

a. A
b. C
c. B
d. D
6. Name the system responsible for transportation of materials in human body. (1)
7. Name thin walled air sacs of the lungs. (1)

8. What is mode of nutrition in fungi? (1)

9. Mention any three methods adopted by plants to minimise the transpiration rate. (1)

10. Mention the role of pancreatic enzyme. (3)

11. How is opening and closing of stomata regulated? (3)

12. How does water reach upto the leaves ? (3)

13. Differentiate between aerobic and anaerobic respiration. (3)

14. Describe the process of urine formation in kidneys. (5)

15. What is nutrition? Briefly explain the two major kinds of nutrition. (5)
 CBSE Test Paper-02
Chapter 06 Life Processes

Answers

1. c. Liver
Explanation: Bile or gall is a dark green to yellowish brown fluid, produced
by the liver of most vertebrates, that aids the digestion of lipids in the small
intestine. In humans, bile is produced continuously by the liver (liver bile), and
stored and concentrated in the gallbladder (gallbladder bile).

2. b. Starch in leaf
Explanation: The covered part of the leaf does not show presence of starch,
while the uncovered part shows starch.

3. d. all the 20 raisins absorbed water

Explanation: All raisins absorb water due to endomosis at high temperature.

4. b. pancreas
Explanation: Pancreas is both an endocrine and an exocrine gland, in that it
functions to produce endocrinic hormones released into the circulatory system
(such as insulin, and glucagon), to control glucose metabolism, and also to
secrete digestive/exocrinic pancreatic juice (such as trypsin), which is secreted
eventually via the pancreatic duct

5. a. A
Explanation: Stomatal pore is grounded by guard cell.

6. 1) Blood vascular system

2) Lymphatic system

7. Each small tube ends in clusters of thin-walled air sacs, called alveoli. It is the alveoli
that receive the oxygen and pass it on to the blood

8. In fungi, there is saprotrophic mode of nutrition. In this case organisms obtain food
from dead and decaying organic matter.
 9. Three methods adopted by plants to minimize the rate of transpiration are:
i. In some cases leaves are rolled to cover stomata (e.g. some grasses)
ii. The stomata may be sunken (e.g. Nerium)
iii. In some cases, leaves may be dropped or absent as in most cacti.

10. Pancreatic enzymes help break down fats, proteins and carbohydrates. A normally
functioning pancreas secretes about 8 cups of pancreatic juice into the duodenum,
daily. This fluid contains pancreatic enzymes to help with digestion and bicarbonate
to neutralize stomach acid as it enters the small intestine. Pancreatic enzyme trypsin
helps in digesting protein and the pancreatic amylase helps in the breakdown of
starch.

11. Stomatal pores in plants regulate the amount of water and solutes within them by
opening and closing their guard cells using osmotic pressure. When water enters the
guard cells from the subsidiary cells by osmosis, then the guard cells swell up and the
stoma opens. When the water moves out of the guard cells, then it shrinks and the
stomatal pore closes.

12. Water is taken up by the roots and reaches the leaves through the xylem vessels
which are a part of the vascular bundle.
13.
Aerobic Respiration Anaerobic Respiration

a) It occurs in the presence of oxygen a) It occurs in the absence of oxygen

b) It occurs in cytoplasm and in the
b) It occurs in cytoplasm
mitochondria
b) Complete breakdown of glucose
c) Incomplete breakdown of glucose occurs
occurs
d) End products are CO2 and ethyl alcohol
d) End products are CO2 and H2O
or lactic acid
e) Amount of energy produced is more. e) Amount of energy produced is less.

14. Urine is formed in the nephron of kidneys. Nephron is the structural and functional
unit of the kidney. Blood at high pressure travels into these tubules by the tuft of
blood capillaries called glomerulus contained in Bowman's capsule.
 The following steps are involved in the process:

i. Filtration: Blood enters the glomerulus through the afferent arterioles It passes
under high pressure that results in the filtration of blood. Water and small
molecules are forced out of glomerular capillary walls and Bowman’s capsule.
Large molecules remain in the blood of the glomerulus.
ii. Selective reabsorption: Some molecules are selectively reabsorbed into the
blood. The glomerular filtrate flows through the proximal convoluted tubule, the
U-shaped Henle’s loop and distal convoluted tubule. The useful substances such as
glucose, amino acids and salts which require energy are reabsorbed by a process
called selective reabsorption. Hence, the filtrate now contains urea, some salts and
water. Reabsorption of solutes increases the water concentration of the filtrate.
Water is then reabsorbed into the blood by osmosis.
iii. Tubular secretion: Some nitrogenous waste products like creatinine and some

other substances like K+ are removed from the blood by DCT (Distal Convoluted
Tubule) and are passed to blood. The urine thus formed is collected in the urinary
bladder.

15. Nutrition: All living organisms need matter to build up the body and energy to
operate the metabolic reactions that sustains life. The materials which provide these
two primary requirements of life are called nutrients or foods. The sum total of
processes by which organisms obtain matter and energy is termed nutrition.
Modes of nutrition
The organisms have evolved two different modes of nutrition:

1. Autotrophic or Holophytic nutrition: All green plants and certain protozoans

(Euglena) have evolved a mechanism to directly use the energy of sunlight for
preparing organic food in their own body from simple raw materials i.e. CO2 and

H2O. These single inorganic materials are transformed into glucose and oxygen is

evolved.
Energy is trapped with the help of chlorophyll present in chloroplasts of cells. The
process is called photosynthesis and the organisms capable of it are termed
photoautotrophs.
 6CO2 + 6H2O C6H12O6 + O2

Carbon dioxide Water Gloucose Oxygen

Some bacteria are known as chemotrophs, as they obtain energy released during
oxidation of inorganic chemicals, and the process as chemosynthesis. Nitrifying
bacteria Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter are chemotrophs.
2. Heterotrophic nutrition: Animal, fungi, (Amoeba) and many bacteria cannot
utilize sun energy. They use chemical bond-energy of organic molecules
synthesized by other organisms in building their own organic molecules. Such a
mode of feeding is termed heterotrophic nutrition, and the organisms having it
are called heterotrophs.